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October 2055

10 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [144] 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:104th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Jock Earle (78) d. 2003 at London, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1549The Province of India constituted, with Xavier as its first Provincial.
1806The first Novitiate of the Maryland Mission is opened, at Georgetown, in a house facing Holy Trinity Church. Ten Novices enter. The Novice Director is Fr. Francis Neale, himself a novice who had entered the Jesuits on that day.
1820At the 20th GC Father Petrucci, Vicar-General, led astray by the turbulent Father Rezzi, was deposed. Father Rezzi was expelled from the Society as a factiosus.
1938The first golf match is held between the theologians and philosophers at the new golf course at Woodstock. It ends in a tie, but the theologians win two days later in a playoff.
1948The official blessing and dedication of LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY.
1949Letter of Fr. General Janssens, "Instruction on the Social Apostolate." 1950. Jan Korec is ordained a priest in prison in Czechoslovakia. One year later, at the age of 27, he is made a bishop, and a cardinal in 1991. He is released from prison in 1968.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April